Robust capacity assignment in telecommunications

Robust capacity assignment in telecommunications

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Article ID: iaor20071276
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 3
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 285
End Page Number: 305
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Journal: Computational Management Science
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Keywords: programming: integer
Abstract:

In telecommunications, the demand is a key factor that drives network planning. The demand exhibits considerable variability, due to customers movement and introduction of new services and products in the present competitive markets. To deal with this uncertainty, we consider capacity assignment problem in telecommunications in the framework of robust optimization proposed in Ben-Tal and Nemcrovski and Kouvelis and Yu. We propose a decomposition scheme based on cutting plane methods. Some preliminary computational experiments indicate that the Elzinga–Moore cutting plane method can be a valuable choice. Since in some situations different possible uncertainty sets may exist, we propose a generalization of these models to cope at a time with a finite number of plausible uncertainty sets. A weight is associated with each uncertainty set to determine its relative importance or worth against another.

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